ISBN: 9787504979971

Pension reform is high on the policy agenda of many advanced and emerging market economies. In advanced economies the challenge is generally to contain future increases in public pension spending as the population...

This paper investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to emerging market economies, concentrating on the effects of economic policies. The empirical analysis also addresses the role of external push factors and o...

Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief an...

Author(s):
Chikako Baba
, and
Annamaria Kokenyne

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
01
December
2011

ISBN: 9781463926625

This paper estimates the effectiveness of capital controls in response to inflow surges in Brazil, Colombia, Korea, and Thailand in the 2000s. Controls are generally associated with a decrease in inflows and a leng...

Author(s):
Shanaka Peiris

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
01
April
2010

ISBN: 9781451982602

This paper estimates the impact of foreign participation in determining long-term local currency government bond yields and volatility in a group of emerging markets from 2000-2009. The results of a panel data anal...

Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief an...

This paper investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to emerging market economies, concentrating on the effects of economic policies. The empirical analysis also addresses the role of external push factors and o...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
01
December
2011

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463926625.001

ISBN: 9781463926625

This paper estimates the effectiveness of capital controls in response to inflow surges in Brazil, Colombia, Korea, and Thailand in the 2000s. Controls are generally associated with a decrease in inflows and a leng...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
01
April
2010

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451982602.001

ISBN: 9781451982602

This paper estimates the impact of foreign participation in determining long-term local currency government bond yields and volatility in a group of emerging markets from 2000-2009. The results of a panel data anal...

ISBN: 9781451948189

A bivariate vector-autoregression (VAR) model is used to test causal relations between the current account and the capital account in four emerging market economies. The results show that high capital mobility coul...